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11656 [lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa' -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> His name - Barack Hussein Obama - will do the rest of the work. Is >> there any way a dark-skinned man with a name like that could ever >> get elected? > > But conversely, for that very reason, if he could, wouldn't it mean > something? Yeah, it'd mean the American people could swallow post-political centrism in an all-new wrapper. Doug

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11657 [lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa' -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrasah> > What is a Madrasah? Yoshie, you're being rational. All they want to do is stick "madrassa" on Obama, and his name - Barack Hussein Obama - will do the rest of the work. Is there any way a dark-skinned man with a name like that could ever get elected? Doug

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11658 [lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa' -- rank: 1000

The Times (London) - January 20, 2007 Obama 'was educated in madrassa' Tim Reid and Tom Baldwin in Washington Senator hid time there, says article Clinton distances herself from claims Barack Obama was given a rude awakening to the cut-throat world of presidential politics yesterday after being accused of hiding four years in which he was educated at a madrassa when a teenager. The claim, made in the conservative Insight magazine, also revealed the Machiavellian scheming of political activist ...

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11659 [lbo-talk] What's the deal with conservatives, economists, and the minimum wage? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2007, at 8:10 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > Do most of those people who don't know what they are doing make or > lose > money ,net, in the long run ? Dunno. Keynes himself was a successful investor, but I don't know what your average finance prof's rate of return is. Doug

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11660 [lbo-talk] Democrats Warn Bush Not to Attack Iran -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2007, at 12:38 AM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > I wish I found this as reassuring as Yoshie seems to. As I wrote at > slightly > greater length on my blog, it sounds quite ominous to me. What I > hear Harry > saying is that the President is not allowed to go on an Iran > joyride without > taking Congress along. He did _not_ say that Congress wouldn't go > along -- > and in fact, given the proper Gulf of Tonkin setup, I'm quite sure > they would > go along ...

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11661 [lbo-talk] Nepal gays and Maoists/Marxist Approach -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2007, at 7:38 AM, EverYoung Global Intellectual Enterprises wrote: > The natural function of sex is procreation. The Vatican would agree. But a lot of humans just like to get their rocks off. Doug

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11662 [lbo-talk] US Plans Envision Broad Attack on Iran (was Benny Strikes Again: "This Holocaust will be different") -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Everybody stays cool, and fewer people will get hurt. In my view, > alarmism about a nuclear strike (by Tehran, Tel Aviv, Washington, or > international jihadists) is as counterproductive as alarmism about > "fascism in the USA." Alarmism helps disarm us against actually > existing dangers of conventional attacks, e.g.: > > <http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19368342.htm> > US plans envision ...

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11663 [lbo-talk] smashing Iran -- rank: 1000

U.S. plans envision broad attack on Iran: analyst WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. contingency planning for military action against Iran's nuclear program goes beyond limited strikes and would effectively unleash a war against the country, a former U.S. intelligence analyst said on Friday. "I've seen some of the planning ... You're not talking about a surgical strike," said Wayne White, who was a top Middle East analyst for the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research unt ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 19 18:38:44 PST 2007

11664 [lbo-talk] What's the deal with conservatives, economists, and the minimum wage? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Ted Winslow wrote: > This understanding of capitalist motivation as irrational underpins > his analysis of behaviour in financial markets, in particular it > underpins his analysis of the "conventional" basis of expectations > in those markets, the most important "convention" being the one > pointed to by Doug. Keynes claims that: > > "The vast majority of those who are concerned with the buying and > selling of secur ...

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11665 [lbo-talk] What's the deal with conservatives, economists, and the minimum wage? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Doug: > > > What do you think drives anticipations of the future, if not the > recent past? There's nothing to make people think the price of an > asset at time t+1 will be greater than the price at time t than the > fact that the price at time t is greater than that at t-1, and > t-1>t-2, etc. > > > [WS:] Not necessarily. Think, for example, of a piece of "railroad > property" i.e. land bou ...

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11666 [lbo-talk] What's the deal with conservatives, economists, and the minimum wage? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Willy Greenfields wrote: >> rational bubble argument > > When exactly was rationality blackened so badly? Part of it is that orthodox finance theorists don't want to allow any space for irrationality in the markets, so everything has to be assimilated to a rational explanation. (As someone said, can't remember who, the orthodox see appeals to irrationality as a form of "cheating.") Even Stiglitz used to think that way, but he may be coming ...

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11667 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris: the next Holocaust (from Iran) -- rank: 1000

Jerusalem Post - January 18, 2007 <http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? cid=1167467762531&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull> Essay: This Holocaust will be different Benny Morris, THE JERUSALEM POST The second holocaust will not be like the first. The Nazis, of course, industrialized mass murder. But still, the perpetrators had one-on-one contact with the victims. They may have dehumanized them over months and years of appalling debasement and in their minds, before the actua ...

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11668 [lbo-talk] Fwd: GDP per capita of Arab Israelis third of that of Jews -- rank: 1000

<http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/ CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3354260,00.html> GDP per capita of Arab Israelis third of that of Jews Study from Arab Center for Alternative Planning: Human development index of Arab Israelis 44 slots lower than Israel overall; level of education in Arab towns lower than education in Palestinian Authority, Libya Roee Nahmias The level of education in the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Lebanon, and Libya is higher than that of Arabs in I ...

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11669 [lbo-talk] Rebuke in Iran to Its President on Nuclear Role -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The bourgeoisie, who couldn't care less about sovereignty, are the > weakest link in Iran. -- Yoshie The economy seems to be going to hell, and your boy's policies haven't helped much. And it's not irrational to want to prevent the US and/or Israel from bombing the crap out of you. Doug

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11670 [lbo-talk] What's the deal with conservatives, economists, and the minimum wage? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Willy Greenfields wrote: > Doug wrote: > >> There's nothing to make people think the price of an >> asset at time t+1 will be greater than the price at > time >> t than the fact that the price at time t is greater >> than that at t-1, and t-1>t-2, etc. > > You and Woj seem to be talking about two different > things. Woj's basically on about discounted cash flow > whereas you're invoking the greater fool theory. Woj > ...

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